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2000- 2012 where we had of course a nine to 12-foot storm surge. the three to five foot storm surge will be fuch to impedethe flow of the mississippi that's expected to hit 19 feet. yesterday the height of the river in of course new orleans was 16. almost at 17 now. so a closer inspection of the graph tells us here this little peak this is the surge, anderson that southeast wind, backs that river up, going to 19 feet. that expect aches that was yesterday at 20 down to 19 is significant. because the levies are at 20 feet. we could have had over topping everywhere. but you get in closer and alli...

Side was the split off the levy to the east and left that what left the neighborhoods full the wear. the failure of other levies led to the devastation. hundreds of people dying in new orleans. up to 1,800 total from hurricane katerina. right across from this canal is a water pumping station. as we speak we hear it. there are people inside. the purpose is it to pump the water into the lake pont train behind the building. officials in new orleans feel that that pumping station, the new levy system constructed since 2005 will leave everybody safe in new orleans. at least that'sway they hope for ...

Out now with the pump system but additional rain and flooding is expected in this city. let's get to the storm. it's still a disturbance, it is not yet a depression, that should happen later today. the hurricane center thinks it should become a tropical storm in about 28 hours and 48 hours from now become a hurricane just south of southern louisiana. we've taken houston out of this, it's mostly a louisiana problem and rainfall problem in areas of mississippi. here's my greatest concern. here's the storm surge forecast. you don't need a powerful hurricane to cause problems with rainfall and sur...

Bone dry one minute and then torrential rainfall the next. there is now a mix of voluntary and mandatory evacuation orders now across the region. >> i don't think my life or my children's life are worth it. that money will come back. >> where are you gonna go? >> go up 55 and where we stop, we stop. >> reporter: that man we talked to is taking his four kids and going north. folks are at various sandbagging stations that have been set up. they're getting their boats out of the water, depleting shelves at the local grocery stores while the u.s. army corps of engineers readied a levy system that ...

Preparing and addressing the concerns that we had, trying to reinforce and mitigate any kind of concerns we had along our levy system, we did not have rain. we did have two days of rain and now we're back, we're having a couple days of sunshine and as i just saw your weather forecaster, we've got rain l coming. we've had a team today at our emergency management director, brad thomas, the crawford county sheriff, ron brown, and his -- a couple of his deputies and four members of the arkansas national guard swift water team that we have one spot that we're watching really, really close where the...